Mortality in Malawi, 1961

Malawi
1961
Life expectancy: 35.2
Who dies: share of all deaths, by age and sex
Hover a bar for the number of deaths. Top-heavy where people live long lives, wide at the bottom where many children die.
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Life expectancy at birth in Malawi was 35.2 years in 1961: 36.8 for women and 33.7 for men, a gap of 3.1 years. 111,430 people died; 8.5% of them were 65 or older and 62.8% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Life expectancy at birth
35.2
Women
36.8
Men
33.7
Life expectancy at 65
11.0
Infant deaths per 1,000 births
176.3
Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births
363.4
Deaths
111,430
Deaths per 1,000 people
30.0
Men dying between 15 and 60 (per 1,000)
444
Women dying between 15 and 60 (per 1,000)
390
Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 1961's death rates at each age stayed the same for their whole life.
Deaths per 1,000 people per year in each age group. Logarithmic scale: each gridline is ten times the one below. Hover for exact values.
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Show the life table data
AgeDeath rate, women (‰)Death rate, men (‰)Years left, womenYears left, men
0185.26217.2836.833.7
1-463.2870.1143.040.4
5-913.8614.5450.548.5
10-147.527.2849.047.0
15-197.017.1245.743.7
20-248.229.4742.340.2
25-298.989.7539.037.0
30-349.3310.1735.633.7
35-399.8511.2532.230.3
40-4410.5512.6428.726.9
45-4911.3214.6725.123.5
50-5414.4418.6021.420.1
55-5919.1623.6917.916.9
60-6429.6834.1514.413.7
65-6946.7251.3911.310.7
70-7477.2082.288.68.1
75-79119.50129.346.56.1
80-84174.49194.114.94.5
85-89244.67278.833.83.4
90-94325.89375.462.92.6
95-99423.27491.852.32.0
100+530.67612.261.91.6